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Show DOMESTIC BBIEFS. Ex-Mayor Hall continues to bo New Vork'a sensation. General Grant and wife are the guests of Wash McLean, Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. Gov. Chambrrlain has gone to Washington. Hampton remains in Columbia. The Chicago republicans have uominatid Mayor Monroe Heath for re-election. It is said that Fernando Wood will not be a candidate (or speaker of the next house. President Hayes haB not oflercd John Q. Smith the commisaionerabip of agriculture. Two barks, m oallast for UaKimore, went ashore in a fog at Cape Henry on Sua. lay night. Gorham, assistant secretary of the intorior, will retire from the public service on April 1st. Morton is preparing the minority report of the joint commission on Chinese immigration. McCrary would not object to trading trad-ing his place in the cabinet for Devons', attorney general. Thatcher & Sou's cotton mill at Darby, Pa., burned on Sunday. Loss, $30,000; insurance, $25,000. Minister Washburne is in Chicago. He will go to Galena in a few days, and sail for Prance on April 21st. Burglars robbed and afterwards burned the greater portion of the village of Madrid, N. Y., on Saturday night. Ex-PreBident Grant made a brief speech in the Cincinnati chamber of commerce on Monday. He waa applauded. ap-plauded. Spotted Tail has been delayed by bad weather and poor horses, but is going on to complete his mission of peace to the hostilcs. In New York on Sunday, Alfred Pickard bound his wife to a chair and shockingly disfigured her face with vitiiol. Jealousy. The New York Times believes the , action of Clerk Adams in making up an arbitrary list of congressmen is solely with a view to his election. The Btranded steamer liusland, ofi" Long Branch, is still embedded in 1 the sand. The Amerique also strand-'ed strand-'ed near her, has drifted seaward in a 1 ga'e. ' The suicide and murder Btories in ; regard to Oakey Hall, are abandoned ; as fictions. He is thought to have fled to escape the exposures ol 'Sweeney, I The World's Washington thinks the Louisiana commission Bcneme l will be abandoned because so few of ( those invited to participate have accepted. i Government is going lo investigate . the seizure of the cargo of the Montana at Mazatlan and take measures for I tho protection of American interests i in Mexico. j I Eflorts are still being made to ob-jtaiu ob-jtaiu patents for the New Idria quick- ! silver mines, California, but Mc-jGarrahau Mc-jGarrahau and hia attorneys are op-1 op-1 posing the issuance of the patents. I W. Maxwell and son, aged 10 years, stockmen, were murdered in Colfax county, New Mexico, Friday night, by a negro, who has been I captured, liobbery was the cause, K. T. Taylor the defaulting cashier of the Franklin (lud.) bank, has escaped es-caped from the insane aBylum by forcing the iron fastenings off one ol the upper windows. Ho had outside aid. The officers who have been circulating circu-lating the stories of corruption of asaiBtant secretary Conant and others in the treasury department, in the payment of accrued interest, will be discharged. The Washington capital assails McCrary, Mc-Crary, for his connection with the McGarrahan claims, and says lie is not fit to be the legal adviser of government, gov-ernment, hia action in the case show ing either corruption or ignorance of the law. Grand Dukes Alexis and Constantino Constan-tino and other Russian nobles at tended divine services on Sunday, on board the Svetland. Later in the day they attended services in the Rueso Greek chapel in Twenty-second avenue, N. Y. There was excitement in Panama and Pacific Mail etocka in Wall street on Monday. Tne latter sold down to 18, but recovered to 20J; the former dropped to 120 cash, 115 seller fifteou days. The cause ia the old trouble between the Union Pacific railroad and the Pacific Mail. The Cincinnati Times, in recard to the written pledges of Senator Matthews and Representative Foster, that the Hampton and Nichols governments gov-ernments would not be disturbed, saya it contaiua only the personal assurance as-surance of Matthews and Foster, and did not pledge the president. Only Governor Browu has responded re-sponded favorably in the matter of the Louisiana commission. Among those invited who declined are Vice President Presi-dent Wheeler, Senator DviH, Professor Profes-sor Wontsey of Yale, Rockwood Hoar, John Young Brown, Morton Ale-Michael Ale-Michael of Philadelphia, and Stough-ton. Stough-ton. Government patents have been issued for Kancho E. Chautrel, comprising com-prising 2,737 acres in Monterey ceunty, Cal., to the heirs of I'elipo Vasqurz, and for tho Pecca grant 'New Mexico, 18,000 acres; also for Gallma grant. New Mexico, Ki-i.OOO acres of which Dolegato Elkius is chief owner. |